Parsewave Suggests LLM Evaluation Needs Real-World Environments, Not Just Q&A
trashnash007 · reddit · 2026-08-24
The author argues that evaluating LLMs becomes significantly harder when moving beyond simple prompts to complex domains like engineering agents. It requires assessing not just answer correctness, but also tool calls, intermediate steps, problem-solving success, and robustness. This suggests that evaluation datasets should be more representative of real engineering work.
Parsewave is highlighted as a provider of post-training data for real-world engineering tasks, including evaluations and traces. Their approach involves testing models in environments where actual task completion can be verified. The author seeks insights on the most useful evaluation methods for LLM applications.
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